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  1. A memoir Relating to experiences in Polonnoye

    Testimony, 3 pages, typescript. Describes invasion of Soviet Union in 1941, when author was as Kamenets-Podolsk region of Ukraine, working in a hospital, and life under occupation in town of Polonnoye.

  2. Photographs of an atrocity scene

    Photographs of corpses, location not identified.

  3. Oral history interview with Emmie Vida

  4. Elwin P. Ware letter

    The letter was written by Elwin P. Ware, representative for the United States at the Nuremberg Trials, to his wife and office staff describing what he saw during a post-liberation tour of Buchenwald concentration camp.

  5. Photographs of Dachau

    Photocopy of name list, compiled by Poles after war, of victims of Brest ghetto. Although list is in Polish, photocopied cover sheet is from a Russian archive (unidentified).

  6. Letter relating to the liberation of Wöbbelin

    Letter, dated March 1945, to "Don," written in Omaha, likely letter from wife/girlfriend of soldier to soldier, on back of letter is list of places in Germany and Austria where soldier apparently was between January and June 1945.

  7. Lehmann family papers

    The Lehman family papers document the experience of Arthur Lehmann and his son, Richard, through their imprisonment at the Ferramonti concentration camp in southern Italy, and later as refugees in Fort Ontario. Included in the papers is Arthur’s handwritten memoir, entitled "Scenes of Life in Ferramonti." Another memoir, from Ruth Gruber, titled "I Went to the Soviet Arctic", is also in the papers. Other items include drawings of the room Arthur stayed in while at Fort Ontario, originals and copies of correspondence, autobiographical notes, photographs, and various newspaper clippings. The ...

  8. Oral history interview with Saba Wenger

  9. Armband with a royal coat of arms worn by a Danish resistance fighter

    Blue, red, and white armband with a medallion issued to Mogens Kofod-Hansen, a Danish resistance fighter, on May 4 or 5, 1945. The armbands, which appeared abruptly throughout Denmark, were issued by the Danish Freedom Council, Denmark's unofficial government-in-exile in England from July 1944 to May 1945. The armbands were meant to identify resistance members as legitimate combatants, rather than guerilla forces, to ensure they were protected under Geneva Convention rules defining combatants and how they should be treated by military forces. Denmark was occupied by Germany on April 9, 1940...

  10. "To Calm My Dreams"

    Testimony. Typescript, 24 pages, titled "To Calm My Dreams" by Kazimierz Tyminski, translated from Polish by Maria Tyminska-Marx.

  11. Letter relating to the tracing of missing Jews

    Photocopy of a letter dated 26 Sep. 1945 from Ida Solwan and Eva Richter.

  12. Star of David badge

    Worn by Meir Yelin in Lithuania and the Kovno ghetto.

  13. Soviet farming and industry; Fighting in Stalingrad

    Titles: "All for the Front, All for Victory"/ "Film-Reporting on the Country back to front" Opening shots of women and children in the Tajikistani fields, harvesting cotton. CUs of the plants. Several shots of sacks of cotton being emptied into large piles, emphasizing mass quantity. ELSs of large processions of horse drawn carts carrying goods. ELS of sea and fishing vessels. CUs of nets bringing up large quantities of fish. ELSs of oil well fields and workers heading to work. CU pool of oil with reflection of towering oil well. ELSs Ural mountains, coal mining. Conveyer belts and trains h...

  14. Memoir of Holocaust experiences in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Germany

    Contains a memoir relating to the Holocaust in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Germany.

  15. Fighting in Stalingrad

    Titles: "Soviet Newsreel"/ "80"/ "Moskow"/ "November 1942"/ "Directed by S. Gurova"/ "All for the Front, All for Victory" Series of shots of women harvesting grains, feeding chickens, painting farm building, men inspecting vegetables. Pan across a sign promoting a regional economic exhibition. Over the shoulder shots of men and women looking at vegetables. ELS of procession of carts carrying vegetables to Leningrad. Trains loaded with good for Leningrad. Scenes in a gun workshop. MSs and CUs of women sanding rifles. MS of boy fitting barrel into wooden rifle. 02:13:57 Titles: "Film-reportin...

  16. Board of Jewish Population Delegation in Będzin Centralna Rada Starszych Gmin Żydowskich w Będzinie (Sygn. 212)

    Contains instructions issued by Chaim Israel Merin, “chairman of the board” of the Judenrat in Będzin (Zarząd Przedstawicielstwa Ludności Żydowskiej w Będzinie); lists of the names and addresses of Jews in Będzin; reports of Jewish police activity; identification cards and photographs of some Jews from Będzin; a list of Jews deported during liquidation actions in the Będzin area; a list of Jewish intellectuals killed by the Nazis; notices to German firms in Będzin concerning the employment of Jews; an alphabetical population list of Jews in Będzin from 1942 to 1943; a list of Jews sent to t...

  17. Richard Schiff collection

    Contains a "Wehrpass" of a German soldier named Fritz Meininger (born, Goettingen, 1913).

  18. Records of the Feldkommandantur Radom (Sygn.161)

    Contains correspondence, reports, orders and various other documents relating to administrative matters handled by the Feldkommandantur in Radom, Poland, from circa December 1944 to circa March 1945. Includes promotions for military personnel; special operations for German military formation Korük 532; distribution of weapons; building of trenches and defenses; dismantling of businesses in Radom; and report of "bandit" or partisan attacks on German soldiers.

  19. "Fifty Years After Liberation, 1945-1995, The Story of One Survivor"

    Testimony, eight pages, typescript, with copies of photographs. Titled "Fifty Years After Liberation, 1945-1995, The Story of One Survivor," by Jack Fleischer, about experiences at Bergen Belsen. Originally from town near Kielce, and discusses experiences after invasion of Poland, time at Skarzysko camp, and later camps.

  20. Oral history interview with Gita Frankel